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Cnn apollo 11 film. >> awesome. i know you were really captivated by neil armstrong and the moon landing as a kid. i wasnt old enough but i was enthralled by space. how significant of an event was the moon landing in getting an entire generation interested in space? >> it was everything. i grew up in ohio. all that i did is monitor what was going to happen with the apollo program when they chose neil armstrong to be first. my mom was one of the 9 to 5 people. you eat dinner, go to bed. we blew o...

This, there was this one unifying effort that everybody on all sides could get behind. what was that? it was apollo. im here to tell you that that unifying kind much message was there today as it was in the 1960s. >> if nasa pulls this off, its going to be a huge win for president trump. do you really think that these democrats are going to give it to him? >> this is not one party, this is about america, if we sustain reusableability and commercial partners and national partners, this is going t...

>> you dont have to be an astronaut to be happy. i try to share my enthusiasm for what is still the coolest job in the world. i encourage your youtube fans to maybe get up from the couch now and then and consider engaging with reality. it can be very rewarding. kristin: stan love, thank you so much and you do have the coolest job in the world. >> thank you so much, my pleasure. kristin: thank you. recently i had the chance to sit down with stans boss actually, nasa administrator jim bridenstine ...

Armstrong building and they will be not only praising the accompaniments of apollo 11 but also pivoting to the lunar future and the artemis mission which the trump administration hopes to return man and woman to the lunar surface starting five years from now. >> phil keating, thank you. i was out there yesterday and it is neat to see all these kids, their parents coming around and getting inspired by these old rockets and capsules, one of the apollo programs greatest achievements was its ability...

Achieving. kind of using the history and the momentum that came from the apollo program, they believe they can do it again. as jean krantz said in that interview he said we do things right now. we need leadership, we need unity. he thinks donald trump may be on the right track, he doesnt know he likes that he put a big goal out there, he will not like what he saw in the oval office where he seemed to waiver, are we going to the moon or mars directly? we need the leadership and the unity. by unit...

Just about anything, no big announcements, the shuttle program has been gone, there seems to be that is predict. >> if you want nasa to do something. if you want nasa to achieve those goals you were talking about, you have to give them money. congress has to fund it. our government and the american people decided it was worth taxpayer dollars to go against the soviet union and put american boots on the moon. if nasa can do it, nasa says we are here, we are ready, we have the rockets, the team, w...

As long as we know where we want to go and how to go about it, a leisurely pace is just find. >> the apollo program was not a leisurely pace. >> president kennedy said a man on the moon by the end of the decade and that was a masterpiece of simplicity, something that helped us. >> we dont have that goal, no one set a goal and a timeframe. does that need to be done? >> it would be very helpful. this administration wants to go back to the moon, the moon is a jumping off point. theres a lot of soli...

Addition to the apollo mission. the lunar module was the module the challenger was one, could carry more payload. because of that we could take this lunar rover or moon buggy as you called it, to the moon and it did extend the exploration capability of the astronauts. we were outside the spacecraft for three different excursions for 22 hours, a little over 22 hours and most of that was actually using the lunar rover to move across this deep mountain valley in with i we landed and we traveled 35 ...

Aldrin and michael collins in the oval office and highlighted his administrations efforts to revitalize the program. >> we took it over, they were covered with grass, broken in bad shape. it was not a pretty picture. they were almost, you could say abandoned, and now theyre in tiptop shape. kristin: nasas new mission is to return to the moon in just five years, but the big question is will congress fund it? so joining us now is the chairwoman of the house science based and house committee, texas...

Near that. >> reporter: so the united states began its ambitious quest to put a men on the moon. they leaped to the unmanned surveyor. >> surveyor did land on the moon and worked. >> reporter: they wanted answers on the surface. >> were the astronauts in 14 feet of talcum powder or on the surface? that was the difference between the ranger or surveyor to demonstrate a reasonable space to put a spacecraft down. >> reporter: and the manned apollo program would follow. now kpl is riveted on the red...